Who have been the 1st humans to invent a world-historical undertaking for the British Empire? And what have been the constituencies at the back of the advance of the imperialistic pondering in mid-Victorian England? those questions are important for figuring out the place the hot Imperialism of the past due 19th century got here from.

Dessens examines the legacy of roughly 15,000 Saint-Domingue refugees--whites, slaves, and loose humans of color--who settled in Louisiana among 1791 and 1815. compelled to escape their French Caribbean colony following a slave uprising that gave delivery to the Haitian Republic in January 1804, they unfold during the Caribbean and alongside the North American Atlantic coast.

The connection among migration and improvement is turning into a massive box of analysis, but the basics - analytical instruments, conceptual framework, political stance - aren't being referred to as into query or discussion. This quantity offers a useful replacement point of view to the present literature because the participants discover the contradictory discourses approximately migration and the position those discourses play in perpetuating inequality and a world regime of militarized surveillance.